1st Edition
Latin American Filmmakers and European Film Funds Refuse. Resist. Reframe
By Bolesław Racięski
Copyright 2026
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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As filmmakers in the Global South are increasingly faced with the choice of succumbing to foreign visions of their own culture or losing access to indispensable funds and future prospects, this study explores this quandary through studying filmmaker’s own perspectives.
The book focuses on filmmakers’ individual approaches to European film funds, arguing not only that these creator-sponsor... Read more
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Openings that Never End
Chapter 1: Struggles of a Latin American Filmmaker
Chapter 2: The Funds Fundamentals: Official Discourses, the Film Festival Formula, and the Selection Process
Chapter 3: Funds Give, Funds Take? The different facets of support, gathering of funds, and the imbalance of prestige
Chapter 4: The "Fund Cinema": the Case of Minimalismo Mexicano
Chapter 5: Cracks in the Past: Decolonising the Discourses on History
Conclusion: Utopia of the Unattainable
Index
Biography
Bolesław Racięski is an assistant professor at the Faculty of "Artes Liberales" at the University of Warsaw, Poland.
